There’s something admirable in the consistency of abortion’s most ardent opponents.
If a fertilized egg is a full-fledged human life, its destruction is indeed no different from the murder of a post-natal person. Thus, a proposed Louisiana law that classifies all abortions as homicide has a logical consistency difficult to gainsay.
If a fertilized egg is a person, then anti-abortion laws that make no exception for rape or incest make sense. If a teenage girl is raped and impregnated by her father, this cruel crime does not impinge on the right to life of the person in her womb.
